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Table 1 Socio-demographic factors of respondents and their levels of knowledge regarding mosquito LSM methods in Nthache area, Mwanza district

From: Household knowledge, perceptions and practices of mosquito larval source management for malaria prevention and control in Mwanza district, Malawi: a cross‐sectional study

Characteristics

N = 479

n (%)

Sex

 

 Male

140 (29.2)

 Female

339 (70.8)

Age-group (years)a

 

 ≤ 35 years-old

273 (57.0)

 > 35 years-old

202 (42.2)

Marital status

 

 Married

379 (79.1)

 Single

22 (4.6)

 Widowed

41 (8.6)

 Divorced/separated

37 (7.7)

Education status

 

 Primary

307 (64.1)

 None

111 (23.2)

 Secondary

56 (11.7)

 Informal/pre-primary

5 (1.0)

Pregnancy status (women-of-child-bearing-age between 15–49 years-old)

N = 276

 Not-pregnant

258 (93.5)

 Pregnant

18 (6.5)

Occupation

 

 Crop farming

286(59.7)

 Mixed-farming (crop and livestock)/pastoralist

93 (19.4)

 Business/self-employed

42 (8.8)

 Employee

25 (5.2)

 Housewife

22 (4.6)

 Unemployed/student

7 (1.5)

 Other

4 (0.8)

Household ownership

 

 Owned

466 (97.3)

 Rented

13 (2.7)

Household floor

 

 Natural/earth

398 (83.1)

 Cement/tiles

81 (16.9)

Household roof

 

 Grass/thatch

292 (61.0)

 Iron-sheets

187 (39.0)

Household wall

 

 Brickwall

344 (71.8)

 Mudwall

135 (28.2)

Household energy used

 

 Firewood

433 (90.4)

 Charcoal

46 (9.6)

Levels of knowledge regarding mosquito larval source management methods

 

 High

309 (64.5)

 Low

170 (35.5)

  1. aAge of 4 (0.8 %) respondents were missing in the dataset